Purpose

Buildings provide a protected environment for people and for things of value. Occupants place a lot of importance on comfort, and the environment inside the building must protect valuable things. In order to monitor the quality of the environment inside the building, this project will place sensors in various locations and near valuable assets. The PassiveLogic® Sense Nano™ device is an innovative sensor package capable of measuring a host of environmental conditions:

• Air temperature
• Radiant temperature
• Humidity
• Atmospheric pressure
• Light intensity
• Occupancy data
• Indoor air quality (wired install)

The innovation of the SenseNano is that all of these sensors are packed in a very small form, and the entire device can run indefinitely being charged by relatively low light levels. This allows these sensors to be placed in many locations without having to wire them to power.

Workflow

First, the building’s layout is modeled using the PassiveLogic Lens iOS app, or the Blueprint™ or Creator™ applications. This process creates a Quantum digital twin of the building. The building’s construction details and the locations of the sensors are included in the digital twin.

Second, the Sense Nano sensors are installed in the physical building at each of the locations which correspond to those in the digital twin. Once the sensors are installed, they need to be “provisioned.” The provisioning process associates each physical sensor with its digital twin. To provision the sensors, the installer will use an iPhone with the PassiveLogic Lens™ application. This application uses the phone’s flashlight and Bluetooth interface to “wake up” the Sense Nano devices and start their monitoring of the environment.

The Live™ web application provides a simple interface for analysis of the environmental data. You can also download the sensor data as a CSV file from Live.

Roles

PassiveLogic provides a deployed digital twin of the building, and our partner installs the Sense Nano sensors. Customer personnel analyze the data in the PassiveLogic Live™ web application.

Preparation

To prepare for installation and operation of the monitoring system, you’ll need the following:

An account

You will need a PassiveLogic account created using your company email. The URL of that email address must be associated with our program partner or customer.

In a desktop web browser (Chrome required) go to passivelogic.com, click Sign in, and follow the directions to create your account. During sign in, accept the invitation to a shared organization for your project if it’s offered. See “Creating a PassiveLogic account” for detailed instructions.

A shared organization viewed in the PassiveLogic account

The shared organization allows program participants to view the same buildings. PassiveLogic or our partner can share the organization, and you will need to accept an invitation either by email or when prompted during sign in.

In a desktop web browser (Chrome required), sign in to your PassiveLogic account. During sign in, accept the invitation to a shared organization for your project if it’s offered.

In the Lens app, sign in with your PassiveLogic account.

Apple iPhone 12 Pro or Pro Max, or later model, with the latest version of iOS.

TestFlight and Lens apps

You will need to install the latest version of the Lens iOS app. (If you already have the Lens app, delete the earlier version and reinstall.)

In a desktop browser (Chrome preferred), sign in to your PassiveLogic account. In the PassiveLogic Portfolio web application, click the Lens icon. Scan the QR code with your iPhone to install TestFlight and the latest version of Lens.

In the Lens app, sign in with your PassiveLogic account.

Next...

To install the Lens app, see “TestFlight and Lens Installation.”